Just had a chance to attend IndiMix'06 yesterday. A conference for Developers & Designers hosted by Microsoft. A great event which also had a live webcast on the Net & many other Indian IT companies like TCS, Wipro, Accenture were also webcasting the event on their Intranets.
One of the great things to learn from these events is the presentation skills of the Westerners. The way the Microsoft CEO spoke was absolutely stunning. His words attracted the entire crowd & kept them focussed on the event. When we compare his speech with that of some CEO's from Indian companies, its just miles apart.
I happen to attend many IT events & interact with many Westerners during these events. I must say that they have a lovely way of distributing information. They also interact in a very informal way relating them with us. This brings us closer to them. When it comes to the big shots from India Inc., they mainly concentrate on business data, providing Gartner statistics & IDC reports. They lag very much in making sessions interactive & lively.
I have full faith in the talents of the biggies of India Inc. but hope that they improve in their presentation skills. They need to be lot more informal & try to make presentations more lively & interactive.
Gone are the days of reading out big long speeches with statistical data.................
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